How technology, culture, learning and policy intersect within research and practice in digital education.

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Call for Contributions: Shaping (Better) Educational and Societal Futures through and with Critical Edtech Research

Colleague Ben Williamson and international colleagues are accepting contributions for the 2026 ECCES Futuring Studio, titled "Shaping (Better) Educational and Societal Futures through and with Critical Edtech Research“ to be held in Hamburg.
Welcoming a Centre Visitor in January: Dr Araba Sey

Dr Araba Sey will visit the Centre for a two-week research stay in January 2026. Her visit will also include a hybrid research seminar in our series.
Call for Studentship Applications: Designing Responsible Natural Language Processing

Applications are open for the 2026 UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Responsible and Trustworthy in-the-world Natural Language Processing studentships.
Special Mention to Dr Ayca Atabey in the My Data Is Mine Award 2025

Special Mention at the 2025 My Data Is Mine Award for a paper on fairness-by-design in AI systems by Centre colleague Dr Ayça Atabey.
Sharing findings and working with scenarios from the Infrastructure Futures for Digital Cultural Heritage project

Read this update on the Infrastructure Futures for Digitial Cultural Heritage project.
Centre Report 2025

We're delighted to share our annual report covering our work during 2024-2025, including pictures from our 10th anniversary party back in May.
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The Centre for Research in Digital Education is based in the Moray House School of Education and Sport at the University of Edinburgh and the Edinburgh Futures Institute, and conducts research, knowledge exchange and consultancy in key areas including digital education pedagogy and policy, open education, children and technology, learning analytics and museum learning.
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We work with many partner universities as well as policymakers, the cultural heritage sector, schools and other public and private sector organisations. Our partners value us for our critical approach to learning, teaching and technology in formal and informal education, and for the ways in which we combine our research with world-leading practice in digital education.